[Question/CLI] How to test multiple directories?

[gabrielmn]

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I can't run czkawka dup --directories dirA dirB.

pwd
/home/gabriel/dupes
ls
test  test_bk

czkawka dup --directories /home/gabriel/dupes/test /home/gabriel/dupes/test_bk
error: unexpected argument '/home/gabriel/dupes/test_bk' found

czkawka dup --directories [/home/gabriel/dupes/test /home/gabriel/dupes/test_bk]
error: unexpected argument '/home/gabriel/dupes/test_bk]' found

czkawka dup --directories </home/gabriel/dupes/test /home/gabriel/dupes/test_bk>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

And variations with ", ' and ,

edit: This is folder structure is just for testing, in the real scenario folder A and B will not have the same parent.

[wwalker]

I have the same problem.

  -d, --directories <DIRECTORIES>
          List of directorie(s) which will be searched(absolute path)

Yet it only accepts ONE directory.

[wwalker]

@gabrielmn

I figured it out. The --help info is misleading/incorrect.

Rather than doing this, as the --help info shows you to do:

czkawka dup ... --directories /home/wwalker /home/Old/wwalker

You need to do it like this:

czkawka dup ... --directories /home/wwalker --directories /home/Old/wwalker

[ShareBugreports]

I agree, using a separator is difficult because a lot of characters are allowed in linux.

Compared to Jdupes. All items at the end are directories.

jdupes --options "/path/to/dir1" "/path/to/dir2"

Multiple flags to add multiple directories is another solution. But the current help text is misleading. It should not be plural. It should also contain some text explaining to add multiple "-d" flags. (note this change might break user scripts using the "long-form" flag)

  -d, --directory <DIRECTORY>
          Add single directory which will be searched(absolute path).